UNICEF and the Global Goals

UNICEF is committed to doing all it can to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), in partnership with governments, civil society, business, academia and the United Nations family – and especially children and young people.

Building on field experience and working in alliance with other United Nations agencies, UNICEF collaborates with partners to stimulate dialogue around macrolevel policies that guide national frameworks, legislative reform and budgetary allocations affecting children and families. Read more on Policy Matters; which showcase results of UNICEF's upstream policy analysis and advocacy and highlights new thinking on social policy areas.

A network of UNICEF social policy advisors and officers work to develop and strengthen important external partnerships at country, regional and global levels with ministries of finance, parliaments, the World Bank, the International Labour Organization, United Nations Development Programme and United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, among others.

The links below lead to lessons-learned, presentations and helpful information from our regional offices highlighting ongoing social and economic policy work:

Upstream policy work, within a rights and gender framework, has generated increasing engagement with, and capacity-building of, civil society, enabling citizens to exercise their rights to participate in public policy decisions. UNICEF uses statistics to monitor progress toward the Millennium Development Goals and subjects national and international policies to scrutiny against the norms and standards set out in the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, so children's rights can be at the centre of global and country-level policy debates.